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I'm named after our famous beloved Marine Corps General, Lewis Burwell (Chesty) Puller. Many U.S. Marines have echoed the following phrase before retiring at night especially in boot camp. “God Bless you Chesty where ever you are.” General Chesty Puller is remembered for many acts of bravery in the victorious fighting spirit of the United States of America. The following quote is taken from Burke Davis’s Book Marine The Life of Chesty Puller made by General Puller when he was a Colonel; For two weeks Puller had commanded the rear of the First Marine Division, cut off in the Chosin Reservoir region by hundreds of thousands of Chinese Communist troops. The Colonel was visiting a hospital tent where a priest administered last rites to Marine wounded when a messenger came stating as follows: “Sir, do you know they’ve cut us off? We’re entirely surrounded.” “Those poor bastards,” Puller said. “They’ve got us right where we want ‘em. We can shoot in every direction now.” I'm TEKHELET’S KELEV CHESTY SHENI and I have the name of a great and beloved warrior but I will not be raised to fight but rather to love human beings and everything in life that is not harmful towards me. Like my predecessor the first Chesty, TEKHELET’S KELEV CHESTY I will be taught the value of friendship and the necessity to please human beings with my behavior. Finally a few notes about my name. TEKHELET is the Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word that is the color of the blue thread that is found in the Tzizit (fringes) of the Jewish Prayer Shawl called a Talit. The word TEKHELET is mentioned in the Bible in Numbers 15:38: Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a thread of blue.